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Mystic7
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A very huge undertaking! I would like to help in any way I can... My resources will be limited by my lack of knowledge on the missionary front so far, but I'm ready and willing to learn!
One thing I just thought of that might help, with the electrical problem... It will create other problems though. Have you considered broody breeds? It's not near as fast or convenient as a big incubator, but it eliminates the need for constant electricity.
But hmmm, to.incubate 1000 eggs you'd need approximately 100 hens
It was a small thought lol
Hello Shortgrass,
Thank you very much for writing with your great encouragement and generous offer for help.
Right now I am not collecting any monetary donations for help. There are many critical needs, and I am have been sending my financial support to them, but I have not yet organized thework to the point where I am collecting funds. I don't even have a web site yet for this project. Eventually I will have as one site, where a donor can actually see the person they want to help, speak to them through an interpreter, and see their living conditions live.I was involved in ministry for 34 years after my conversion from atheism, and I hate the outright falsehoods, the subtle misleading innuendos, and the millions of $ donations that never make it to the people. Read Ezekiel 34 and see our Father's disgust over this.
However, our approach is to create an overall solution to the problems faced by the minorities and the suffering of anyone anywhere. Personally I was led to start by initiating the work in Pakistan, and it will grow from there.
Yes, the vision is enormous, and that is why I am looking for technical help in every area far beyond my knowledge. That is why I started with BYC, there is a forum here to ask for help. The people I work with are humble, unskilled, uneducated workers. I thought, since they are poor and hungry, the fastest avenue into production would be through chickens. They have very little animal protein in their diets, and one person can produce far beyond their immediate needs. For fun, I started with a dozen chickens, and every week there were far more eggs than our family of 10 (including extended family) could possibly eat, so we set the eggs out on Sunday for others to take. So I know this is possible.
As for the help we need, it includes everything you can imagine as a need - construction plans for housing, small business plans with the technical knowledge (sewing, agriculture, metal fabrication, vertical farming in containers, solar production - including producing the solar panels, creating Scriptural lessons, school lessons, instructional videos.even interactive live teaching in any number of areas.
Most "ministries" don't want people to be personally involved, because they will actually see what is done or not done on the field. But we encourage any degree of interaction. Not only can you see the work on the ground, but the suffering there will be able to see by your presence that someone actually does care, they are not forgotten, most importantly,that they are loved.
So shortgrass, you can fit into any part of this by letting me know your interests, your expertise, your knowledge. If you choose to work on a project, you will be given helpers there to carry out your instructions, if you care to be involve at that level.You can meet with them any time you want. But we do have strict guidelines on certain things, particularly in giving financial support.I have sent 1000s to them hoping they would help their people in return (and as I gave that money, I was living in a car at the time). Most did nothing but talk, others just took the money. My solution now is to give for known critical needs, in which they supply documentation (physician reports, test results). Otherwise I pay them a small amount (a month's wage) and it continues based on their productivity. It may help you to understand this situation to know the humble, uneducated will not be cunning enough to devise some way of receiving without working, but those who speak English are knowlegable enough to have their little schemes. Please don't let that discourage you from helping, it is normal to be found in difficult and abusive cultures (which is very common in our own nation.
I do not know how it works, but I can give you my contact information so we can further discuss you being involved as little or as much as you wish.
As far as the breeding, yes, we need to understand the process. I think we will have those in our community to focus on that aspect. Considering the use of an incubator, I am wondering if they can be constructed in discarded metal or plastic drums, or other similar containers readily and cheaply available. I would like to think of some type of solar power, not necessarily solar panels, but indirect heat collection, for example on concrete or solar heated water. I once toyed with the idea of water heated in a hose with the hot water rising to a radiator as as heat exchange, and the cool water falling passing back down into the system to be reheated, all without the need of a pump. I had a pool once where I was able to heat a lot of water in a black hose, and water from the filter passing through this part of the system.
Thank you, my dear brother for offering your help. However little or much you decide to help will be deeply meaningful to them.
Our Father and Creator and Christ within you, bless you abundantly in every area of YOUR needs in this life. I am very grateful for your kind offer of help. And to let you know you are the first to offer help on a continuing basis! Thanks
I have experience with farming and husbandry, but almost none as far as construction... I'm not very good at technical things but I'm good with my hands.
